The purpose of the criminal justice system is both to rehabilitate and to punish. If we can rehabilitate somebody, that's a huge, huge win.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The purpose of our justice system is to reflect the values of our society and to punish those who violate our standards.
The reason I like the criminal justice system is there aren't Republican or Democrat victims or police officers or prosecutors. It's about respect for the rule of law!
I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.
We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.
The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
I believe, and I may be wrong, the system sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. Prison is supposed to rehabilitate, but they don't do that in a lot of cases.
We can't just rail against crime. We must speak of the root problems - devastating family breakup, an insidious culture of violence that cheapens human life, skyrocketing prisoner recidivism rates that rob our communities of husbands and fathers - and recognize that there is a societal role in rehabilitation and restoration.
Look, the justice system is made up of people. People have faults. It's not perfect.
Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore.